My example of the content tsunami is the explosion of copied blogs: someone finds an authentic blog, hires someone in a developing country on a freelancing platform to rewrite each blog post so that no copyright violation is detected, and then loads the new forged blog with advertising and SEO. Iterations happen where no longer are authentic blogs being copied, new forgeries are based on earlier forgeries.
This started with recipe blogs, but is now slowly spreading through all kinds of other hobbies and interests. Someone looking for information about the hobby can't find the straightforward content among all the advertising-laden copies.
With regard to science-fiction predicting the info tsunami, Roger MacBride Allen’s The Ring of Charon from 1990 uses it as a plot point (but this is not otherwise a very good book).
This started with recipe blogs, but is now slowly spreading through all kinds of other hobbies and interests. Someone looking for information about the hobby can't find the straightforward content among all the advertising-laden copies.
With regard to science-fiction predicting the info tsunami, Roger MacBride Allen’s The Ring of Charon from 1990 uses it as a plot point (but this is not otherwise a very good book).